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LinkedInBot
LinkedIn's crawler that fetches Open Graph and Twitter Card metadata when URLs are shared on LinkedIn. Reads og:title, og:description, og:image for post previews.
Respects robots.txt
No
Can be blocked
Partial
Crawl-Delay support
No
Type
Social Media
Purpose
LinkedIn post preview metadata scraping
SEO Impact
Blocking breaks LinkedIn post previews. LinkedIn is a major traffic source for B2B content — ensure og:image returns 200 for all public pages.
User-Agent String
LinkedInBot/1.0
robots.txt Control
Cannot be blocked via robots.txt. Use firewall rules only if absolutely necessary, accepting broken LinkedIn previews.
Block
User-agent: LinkedInBot Disallow: /
Allow (default)
User-agent: LinkedInBot Allow: /
Official Documentation
Test your robots.txt against LinkedInBot
Check which paths are blocked or allowed for each user-agent